On 1 Corinthians 14:2 [A couple of Examples Offhand]

Danny Andre' Dixon bereandad at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 21 14:43:23 EDT 2002


Dear Lance:

One example of AKOUW in the sense of "understand"
seems to me to be given in Acts 9:7 as compared with
Acts 22:9.

In Acts 9:7 we see that when Paul saw a vision of the
resurrected Lord Jesus, they were AKOUONTES MEN THS
FWNHS MHDENA DE QEWPOUNTES, i.e. "hearing the voice,
but not understanding [it]."

In Acts 22:9, Paul relates the account in his apology
before his Jewish brothers and fathers, and explains
HOI DE SUN EMOI ONTES TO MEN FWS EQEASANTO THN DE
FWNHN OUK HKOUSAN TOU LALOUNTOS MOI, i.e. "Now those
being with me were beholding the light, but they did
not hear the one speaking to me."

AKOUW can express such definitions as "to hear,
listen, attend, perceive by hearing, comprehend by
hearing," as the Abbott-Smith manual lexicon
indicates. He lists Acts 22:9 as an example for the
same. Thus, the context determines what is going on,
and such should always be the students concern in
translation, whether it is in considering that people
don't understand uninterpreted/untranslated
glossalalia in 1 Corinthians 14:2, And in the present
example, although similar terms are used in the same
context, who can doubt that the experience of the
individuals present, though contemporary, was not
similar. Paul understood the voice. Those with him did
NOT understand it because the Lord either didn't
intend them to or because of their lack of
attentiveness at the surprise of the event (not unlike
the confusion at God's communication at the Son's
request that the Father glorify his name. When the
Father replies from heaven, KAI EDOXASA KAI PALIN
DOXASW "I have indeed glorified it and will glorify
[it] again," some of the crowd  AKOUSAS "hearing"
(imperceptively, I might add) said, "thunder had
occurred", but others said, "An angel had spoken to
him" (See John 12:28-29).

As Jesus himself says regarding the purpose of
parables, they were told so that  . . . . AKOUONTES
AKOUWSIN KAI MH SUNIWSIN "hearing they may hear and
might not understand" (Mark 4:12)

Regards,

Danny Andre' Dixon, M.A.
3702 Murray Ct.
Ft. Worth, TX 76107

--- lance w seevers <lws39 at juno.com> wrote:
> I thought OUDEIS was the same as EIS, the number. So
> in this instance
> OUDEIS functions as the nominative singular. 
> I have a question regarding AKOUW. Could it mean, in
> this passage,
> "understand" rather than "hear?" I can't think of
> any examples offhand. 
> I see your point about the change of subject. But
> doesn't the GAR break
> it up a little? Doesn't the phrase OUDEIS GAR AKOUEI
> ktl. answer the
> question why he doesn't speak to humans but to God?
> I guess that is a
> question about how GAR acts.
> 
> Walt Seevers
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:06:50 -0700 (PDT) waldo
> slusher
> <waldoslusher at yahoo.com> writes:
> > hO GAR LALWN GLWSSHi OUK ANQRWPOIS LALEI ALLA
> QEWi,
> > OUDEIS GAR AKOUEI, PNEUMATI DE LALEI MUSTHRIA
> > 
> > I am trying to understand OUDEIS GAR AKOUEI.
> > 
> > So far, I have something like, "The one speaking
> with
> > a (particular) tongue or language does not speak
> to
> > men but to (some, a) god."
> > 
> > The next two verbs AKOUEI and LALEI are what I am
> > trying to connect. AKOUEI seems to say "he
> hears..."
> > while LALEI says "he speaks..." I am not sure what
> is
> > the meaning of the idea that "he hears OUDEIS."
> > 
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